Entertaining and important tech industry news
At Comtel Communications, we take anniversaries very seriously. Just as we pride ourselves on long-standing relationships with our client base, we know that this is made possible because of our dedicated and loyal team of employees. Our employees are family and we look forward to celebrating every year but especially major milestones.
In the Fourth Annual State of the Phish Report by Wombat, 76% of the InfoSec professionals surveyed reported that they had experienced phishing attacks in 2017.
Phishing: The method of collecting data using emails, websites, and links that are designed to mimic trusted sources. Fraudsters trick users into disclosing private information such as passwords and credit card numbers.
Many people underestimate the importance of data back up and quick recovery time.
Read this blog for tips on how to better back up your company's files and important data.
Simplicity VoIP and Comtel Communications were founded with the focus on clients being our foremost priority. That said, delivering timely and helpful customer support are at the heart of our core values. This support would be impossible without our talented and dedicated client services team. One key team member is Patrick Messick. He has been with Simplicity and Comtel for about three years and has become an essential member of the client services team and company family.
You don’t have to have 500+ employees for your company to be a target of hackers. In fact, according to the 2016 state of SMB Cybersecurity, half of the companies breached within 12 months were SMBs at an average cost of $879,582.
As organizations move their systems, applications and data to the cloud, an SLA (Service Level Agreement) with the selected cloud services provider should be considered to guarantee the maintenance of a minimum level of service. A cloud SLA ensures that the cloud providers meet certain enterprise-level requirements and provide an organization a clearly defined set of deliverables. Consider that cloud infrastructure can span geographies, networks and systems – both physical and virtual.
Downtime can severely impact your business in more ways than one, do you really want to risk losing customers, damaging your reputation, or even find yourself in a lawsuit? Read below to find out just how much downtime can cost your business.
Richmond, VA Simplicity VoIP, a hosted VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and cloud services provider, has selected R. Frank Vasquez III (Tres) as it’s 2018 summer intern.
Remember when you had to actually pay for long distance calls by the minute? Not anymore! While most services and products have steadily increased in price, traditional telecommunication costs, e.g. wireline phone service, wireless solutions, and internet connectivity, have dropped significantly.
In this day of heightened cybercrime, it is more important than ever to protect your network and data. The good news is that there are experienced companies with vetted tests and services to help ensure that you are safe and protected.
Businesses and enterprise executives are seriously evaluating the possibilities of moving some or all of their companies’ hardware and/or IT infrastructure to the cloud. There are many benefits from this migration, but in order to be efficient and to reduce possible work place disruptions and downtime, numerous considerations with regards to cloud environments and service delivery need to be contemplated.
As shared in an earlier blog, businesses review the types of cloud offerings available. This is the second installment of a two part blog series where we will finish providing common questions and answers to about the similarities and difference between the public and private clouds.
